Cinematic platformer · RPG elements · PC

A journey through art. A fight through history.

Four heroes awaken inside four visual languages of the ancient world. Explore, fight and solve your way through stories painted on caves, papyrus, pottery and mosaic.

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CEEGA Hidden Gem Winner ArtFormer
Hidden Gem WinnerCEEGA · 2022
IndieDB Indie of the Year 2019
Top 100 Indie of the YearIndieDB · 2019

History becomes the game world

The art is not decoration. It is the world.

ArtFormer builds each chapter from a different surviving visual tradition. The shapes, colours, characters and spaces of ancient artworks become a playable cinematic platformer rather than a background pasted behind it.

Egyptian chapter in ArtFormer: Ancient Stories

Four chapters · four heroes · four visual languages

Walk into ancient art.

Cave paintings

Before history had words.

Enter a raw world of ochre animals, black silhouettes and ritual marks. A young hunter faces danger in a landscape inspired by prehistoric cave art.

Egyptian papyrus

Cross the Nile. Enter the afterlife.

Sail through a flat, ceremonial world of gods, sacred geometry and painted papyrus. Pharaoh Ramesses II continues his journey beyond death.

Greek pottery

Escape the flames of Troy.

Terracotta figures move across a blackened world as Odysseus leaves the burning city behind and begins a journey shaped by Greek myth.

Roman mosaic

Fight for a place in the arena.

Stone tesserae become bodies, streets and blood-stained arenas. Train, choose your fighting style and survive the dangerous path of a gladiator.

More than a visual experiment

Platforming with RPG bones.

Sneaking, combat, conversations, quests, inventory and character progression live inside a story-driven cinematic platformer whose mechanics evolve from chapter to chapter.

Story-driven chaptersA different hero, story and visual identity in every era.
Combat & stealthFight or slip past dangers using weapons appropriate to the world.
RPG systemsInventory, equipment, character statistics, dialogue and quests.
Puzzles & explorationRead the scene, discover routes and move through hand-built environments.
ArtFormer inventory and RPG interface

Recognition

A small game that got noticed.

ArtFormer was recognised both before release and after launch — including a regional Hidden Gem win.

CEEGA 2022 Hidden Gem winner — ArtFormer
Central & Eastern European Game Awards · 2022

Hidden Gem — Winner

CEEGA selected ArtFormer: Ancient Stories as the 2022 winner in the Hidden Gem category.

IndieDB 2019 Indie of the Year Top 100
IndieDB · 2019

Indie of the Year — Top 100

While still in Early Access, ArtFormer reached IndieDB's Top 100 Indie of the Year selection for 2019.

The ancient stories are waiting

Step into the artwork.

Discover all four chapters of ArtFormer: Ancient Stories on Steam.

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